Yes, thank you.

Why didst thou become a Buddhist and join that temple, anyway?

Say...

The menreiki incident not long ago that spread pessimism across the Village should've shown thee as much.

What thou calleth 'enlightenment of the masses', living by the laws of Buddhism, is naught but a charade.

Even now that a long time hath passed since the coming of Buddhism,

life may have changed greatly...

Yet people's hearts remain the same, do they not?

Wouldst thou not call it a waste of effort...

That it's all been in vain?

Enlightenment, salvation... those aren't really what I'm doing this for.

That stuff is more for Hijiri-sama...

...Well, in the end... I guess...

That's what she believes in, so I believe it too?